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Article: Baked goods prices hiked
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- November 6, 2002
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JAMAICANS will have to dig deeper into their pockets following an increase in the price of flour and a spin-off rise in prices for baked products.
The prices for breads, buns, bullas, cakes and other delicacies have been increased by between seven and 10 per cent, depending on the bakery, explained president of the Bakers Association of Jamaica (BAJ), Jerry Chambers.
Consumers will now fork out extra dollars ranging from an average low of $4.90 to a high of $7.00 for a loaf of bread which, for example, now costs $70.
One bakery manager explained that a two-pound loaf of bread would increase from an average of $45 to $48.50. The level of the price increases would depend on costs per loaf set ...